Anasay

Öz

This article analyzes the pre-election discourses of the rising right-wing parties in Europe through critical discourse analysis. Political parties rising on the right wing in 10 European countries continue to be a matter of current debate. The heated discourses of the rising right-wing parties on domestic and foreign policy issues have brought about an increase in the parties' vote rates. Research; With Van Dijk's discourse analysis method it focuses on the rhetorical figures used by leaders in their negative presentation of the other. Critical Discourse Analysis offers many analysis frameworks regarding the negative presentation of others in discourse studies. Revealing how right-wing parties in Europe invest in rhetorical figures in the negative other presentation such as immigration and immigration, EU, gender and climate opposition should be considered as an important contribution to the literature. Because in order to understand the broad social base to which European right-wing parties respond, the relations between domination and discourse need to be analyzed. Thus, this research aimed to show, at the discourse level, the similarities and differences in the negative presentation of the other by the leaders of the rising right-wing parties in Europe on agenda topics (climate, gender, EU, immigration) in different countries. 54 quotes selected from the pre-election discourses of party leaders from 10 different countries, selected based on discourse analysis, according to the analysis framework, from their official websites; It revealed how leaders use the same agenda items in the rhetoric they use in their negative other presentation.